Front Range Community College received nearly $10 million from the U.S. Department of Labor Wednesday, part of a $25 million grant to a consortium of nine Colorado schools focused on developing a pipeline of skilled advanced manufacturing workers.

Other schools receiving funds to participate in the Colorado Helps Advanced Manufacturing Program (CHAMP) are Aims Community College ($2,106,296), Community College of Denver ($3,534,061), Emily Griffith Technical College ($417,734), Lamar Community College ($1,092,663), Pikes Peak Community College ($2,307,859), Pueblo Community College ($1,656,914), Red Rocks Community College/WarrenTech ($1,946,047) and Metropolitan State University of Denver ($1,958,663).

CHAMP’s partners will increase the attainment of manufacturing degrees and certificates that align with the industry’s recognized competencies, skills and certifications to create a pipeline of highly-qualified advanced manufacturing industry workers.

The grants are part of the government’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grant program, a multiyear, nearly $2 billion initiative to expand targeted training programs for unemployed workers, especially those impacted by foreign trade.

The 57 grants announced Wednesday will support 190 projects in at least 183 schools in every state plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

A member of a "sophisticated cocaine trafficking conspiracy" was convicted Monday in federal court in Denver of conspiring to distribute, and possessing with intent to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine, according to prosecutors.

A man who shot two eighth graders at Deer Creek Middle School in 2010, and was found not guilty by reason of insanity to attempted murder, will not be allowed to leave the Colorado Mental Health Institute's grounds without supervision, according to a Jefferson County District Court ruling.

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